Category: Google

As reported on Engadget. By Stefan Constantinescu When Google released a new version of Google Maps for Android yesterday, it was quickly discovered that offline mapping support had been removed. You could kind of turn it back on by typing “OK Maps” into the app’s search field, but the lack of a dedicated button had users up in arms. Today, Google is announcing that it’s adding a “Make this map area available offline” button and that it’s rolling out…

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Depending on your point of view, today’s either the 66th anniversary of an Air Force experiment gone awry or an alien landing. With tongue firmly in its cheek, Google is celebrating the Roswell incident, the most (in)famous of alien encounters with one of its interactive doodles, in which you help an extra terrestrial rebuild his spaceship after it breaks apart in New Mexico. Once you’ve done that, you can then kick…

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent A user named Zhouwei has taken a thorough look at the latest APK for the Google Glass Explorer edition and found a few gems, including a possible app store called the Boutique. That would make sense given that there’s no central repository for apps right now, and the code indicates that Glassware and APKs could be synced to the hardware via such a market. Other changes of note are a lock-screen…

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As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ The D-Wave computer housed at the USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center in Marina del Rey, California.Photo: Mae Ryan/Wired   Google bought one. So did Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest defense contractors. But we still can’t agree on what it is they bought. D-Wave, the company that built the thing, calls it the world’s first quantum computer, a seminal creation that foretells the future of mathematical calculation. But many of…

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry If tapping the search bar and typing a search term inside the Google Search app seems painfully slow on your Android device, you’re not alone. Thankfully, there’s a an easy—albeit experimental—fix that can speed up those searches significantly, and all you have to do is disable a built-in system app to do it. According to a few enterprising posters at Reddit and a bug report over at the Android…

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As reported on The Verge. By Matt Brian Google CEO Larry Page has again moved to reassure consumers over the privacy implications of Google Glass. Speaking at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, Page told investors that privacy fears will fade as people begin to integrate wearable technology into their lives, noting “it is not that big a concern.” Comparing Glass use to taking a photo or video on a smartphone, the Google chief said “you don’t collapse in…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS Google will soon launch Google Web Designer, an HTML5 development tool for “creative professionals.” The service, Google says, will launch within “the coming months” and is meant to “empower creative professionals to create cutting-edge advertising as well as engaging web content like sites and applications – for free.” The company shared this news in a sidenote in a blog post about its DoubleClick advertising platform this morning. We reached out to…

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As reported on The Verge. By Jeff Blagdon   Glass got its very first porn app today, but just a few hours after its launch, the service has already been pulled from Google’s Glassware hub. The app is called Tits and Glass, and had been highly anticipated since news of its development hit last month. But Friday’s quiet revisions to Google’s Platform Developer Policies banning explicit material meant that the app, produced by adult publisher MiKandi, wasn’t long for the…

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN The following is my fictionalized story based on a stranger-than-fiction, real life op-ed by Julian Assange, wherein he accuses Google of conspiring with the State Department to dominate the world.  Assange’s quotes are real. “General Schmidt, Julian is on to us,” said President Obama, as he sauntered through the steel doors of the Google Bunker, Secret Service in tow. The President wore his mandatory “I’m A Googler” t-shirt over his dress…

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